PK_SP_090 BOOM! / BEEZ!
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“Boom! is beyond bad, the other side of camp – a film so genuinely beautiful and awful that there is only one word to describe it: perfect.” John Waters
“If you don't like this film, I hate you.” John Waters
Released in US cinemas on this day (26 May 1968): berserk and baroque infamous mega-flop Boom! An adaptation of the Tennessee Williams play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore directed by Joseph Losey, it stars tempestuous hard-drinking then-married showbiz royal couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. From the windswept high solitude of her villa on the edge of a cliff on a private island on the Amalfi Coast, terminally ill ageing hedonist Flora “Sissy” Goforth (Taylor), the much-married, drug addicted richest woman in the world (and arguably, the most irritating woman in the world) distracts herself from her imminent death by dictating her memoirs into a tape recorder and directing her diva’s wrath at her long-suffering servants in fractured Italian (“Shit on your mother!” she screams at a maid who displeases her). "I need myself a lover," Goforth growls to her personal assistant. Sure enough, she is visited by the enigmatic Christopher Flanders (Burton), a poet turned gigolo notorious on the international jet set as an ambiguous and parasitic “Angel of Death” who materializes whenever a wealthy woman is about to die. The ensuing film is overblown, irresistibly absurd, undeniably beautiful and dream-like, spellbinding and yes, sometimes unintentionally hilarious. Pope of Trash John Waters has enthusiastically and persuasively championed Boom! as his all-time favourite movie. "I show it to every person I think I'm falling in love with,” he’s claimed. “If they hate it, I don't talk to them anymore." Tennessee Williams praised Boom! as “a beautiful picture, the best ever made of one of my plays … Eventually it will be received with acclaim.” I screened Boom! at my Lobotomy Room film club in August 2021: the crowd was awe-struck. Pictured: portrait of Taylor by Gered Mankowitz during the production of Boom! Kuva vähem
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